121. A Prayer Of Our Blessed Lord.

A Prayer Of Our Blessed Lord. A Prayer of our Blessed Lord.—Matthew 11:25-26.

It is when our Savior prays that every Christian heart is drawn closely to him. We feel he is “our elder brother,” and we walk in the “way of the mercy-seat,” following where his precious footsteps have led us, to seek comfort and blessing, strength and light. Oh, when we weep over discouragements and murmur at disappointments, we forget the Savior prayed; when our path in life seems so dark we can see no “silver lining” to the clouds that thickly gather, we forget the Savior prayed; but it is that we might not forget this that we see the Son of God looking upward while wandering upon this desert waste. Oh, does not the privilege grow dearer to our souls when we think of this? The prayer which we notice at present reveals the wonderful truth that God’s spirit dwells in the heart of the true Christian. This our Savior tells us himself in the prayer. We have divine testimony of a truth whose simplicity the wisdom of earth cannot fathom, and yet whose power the simplest, most unlettered child of God may comprehend and feel. He attempts not to explain this great truth, but simply tells of it, and resolves it all into the will of “our Father in heaven.” We have it from our Savior’s lips, recorded in the word of life in characters of living fire, sacred to all who believe “To the humble disciple it is bread, but a stone to the proud and unbelieving, A scorner shall find nothing but the husks wherewith to feed his hunger; But for the soul of the simple it is full of plenty and ripe wheat; Religion taketh by the hand the humble pupil of repentance, And teacheth him lessons of mystery;

Solving the questions of doubt, She maketh man worthy of himself, Of his high prerogative of reason, Threadeth all the labyrinths of thought, And leadeth him to his God.”